British Columbia bills

This British Columbia bill designates certain drug categories — including mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, safer supply/harm reduction drugs, puberty-suppressing and gender-transition hormones, and SSRIs — as 'experimental drugs classes,' and prohibits practitioners from prescribing, dispensing, or administering them unless the drug's wholesaler has signed a risk management agreement that includes a patient compensation fund and government indemnification for health care costs.

This bill officially designates February as Chinese Heritage Month in British Columbia, recognizing and celebrating the contributions of Chinese Canadians to the province.

This Bill requires the BC government to notify affected parties and allow them to make representations before any Crown land is disposed of, and mandates annual public reporting on Crown land transactions plus a special legislative committee to review Crown land disposition practices.

This British Columbia bill creates a legal framework for small farms (under $750,000 annual gross revenue) and small farming cooperatives, adjusting Agricultural Land Reserve rules to allow more off-farm product processing, permit agri-tourism activities as protected farm uses, and limit agri-tourism accommodation, while requiring the minister to publish an annual food production report.

This BC bill would cut provincial income tax by 50% for anyone under 40 years old, and separately requires the BC government to slash its total public spending by 50% within five years.

This British Columbia bill repeals the Residential Tenancy Act, the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act, and the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act, effectively eliminating the Residential Tenancy Branch and shifting all landlord-tenant dispute resolution to Provincial Court.

This bill repeals British Columbia's Speculation and Vacancy Tax Act, which imposed an annual tax on owners of vacant or underused residential properties in designated urban areas. The bill preserves the province's ability to collect and enforce any tax liabilities that arose before the repeal date.

This British Columbia private member's bill amends the Mental Health Act to add a definition of 'brain injury' and expand the definition of 'person with a mental disorder' to include individuals with brain injuries that significantly impair their judgement, emotional regulation, or behavioural control.

This bill repeals section 8.1 of British Columbia's Interpretation Act. Section 8.1 was added in 2024 and provided that references to 'natural person' in BC legislation include a reference to an unborn child, which was part of broader amendments related to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Repealing it would remove that interpretive provision from BC law.

This British Columbia bill requires advocacy organizations working on specific issues (2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous rights, environmental protection, harm reduction/homelessness/poverty) that receive $10,000 or more from government or foreign sources to publicly disclose their funding sources, amounts, and top compensation, and to display prominent funding notices on their websites and social media.

This British Columbia bill requires the provincial government to notify fee simple landowners when their property may be affected by Aboriginal title claims or negotiations, and to file notices in the land title office. It also mandates annual public reporting on all unresolved and resolved Aboriginal title claims affecting fee simple lands.

This private member's bill proposes to repeal British Columbia's Health Professions and Occupations Act, which is the province's framework for regulating health professionals and their licensing, oversight, and disciplinary processes.

This British Columbia bill extends the deadline for making catastrophic injury insurance claims under the provincial vehicle insurance system and lowers the threshold for what qualifies as a catastrophic injury by reducing the number of amputations required from two to one.

This private member's bill proposes to repeal British Columbia's Health Professions and Occupations Act, which is the provincial framework governing the regulation, licensing, and oversight of health professionals and health occupations in BC.

This British Columbia bill amends the School Act to require all school boards to establish controlled access policies for school buildings during instructional hours, including securing exterior doors, designating monitored entry points, and requiring visitors to check in at the office before accessing the school.

This British Columbia bill prohibits public sector entities from requiring or favoring either unionized or non-unionized labour when soliciting bids for public construction projects, ensuring union status cannot be a condition or evaluation criterion in procurement.

This British Columbia bill requires health authorities to submit monthly reports to the minister on long term care waitlists, hospice bed availability, and home support access, and requires the minister to publish these reports publicly and develop a plan to improve timely access to long term care.

This British Columbia bill amends the Motor Vehicle Act to create a new administrative framework for immediate 30-day driving prohibitions for 'reckless driving,' which includes stunting, excessive speeding (40+ km/h over the limit in lower zones, 50+ km/h over in higher zones, or 150+ km/h), aggressive driving behaviours, and other dangerous conduct. It also creates criminal-style offences for driving while prohibited under these new provisions.

This BC bill requires owners and operators of large commercial vehicles (over 11,793 kg gross vehicle weight) to install, maintain, and continuously operate dashboard cameras that meet specific technical standards, including 72-hour storage, 1080p resolution, and night vision capability.

This British Columbia bill requires local governments to accept technical submissions certified by professionals regulated under the Professional Governance Act (such as engineers, geoscientists, agrologists, foresters, and applied biologists) as meeting permit and bylaw requirements for development projects, shifting liability from municipalities to the certifying professionals and streamlining development approvals.